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From: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
To: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>, Andrea Venturi <a.venturi@avalpa.com>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: advice on Easycap dongles and VBI interface..
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 09:22:40 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131205122239.GB2345@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52A0693C.7060704@xs4all.nl>

Hi Andrea and Hans,

On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 12:53:32PM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> 
> > - finally which approach do you suggest for supporting this ancient
> > feature, if feasibiliy tests are ok: - a libusb quick hack? - an
> > implementation of the bindings between user level /dev/vbi and
> > underlying SAA711x routines?
> 
> The problem is that I don't believe we have any stk1160 documentation.

I do have the stk1160 chip datasheet. However, it's not publicly
available and I'm not sure I should disclose it (although syntek never
advise me against it). In additio, the datasheet is not very verbose
and the information is scarce and often incomplete.

> And I wonder if the device can support VBI at all.
> 

Apparently it does: at least there's a flag to "enable" VBI mode.

> You are better off choosing devices that already have VBI support: the
> em28xx supports it, so do bt8xx, cx18 and ivtv.
> 

I agree with this. I don't have any VBI source so there's no way I can
work on this (not to mention it's not something lots of users need).
-- 
Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com

      reply	other threads:[~2013-12-05 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-05 10:43 advice on Easycap dongles and VBI interface Andrea Venturi
2013-12-05 11:53 ` Hans Verkuil
2013-12-05 12:22   ` Ezequiel Garcia [this message]

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